Editorial Board: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports

G. Alexander Patterson, MD, Editor 2015-2021
L. Henry Edmunds, Jr, MD, Editor 2000-2015
Thomas B. Ferguson*, MD, Editor 1984-2000
Herbert Sloan*, MD, Editor 1969-1984
John D. Steele*, MD, Editor 1964-1969

*Deceased

Adult Cardiac
Pedro Catarino, MD
Los Angeles, CA

Tirone E. David, MD
Toronto, Canada

G. Chad Hughes, MD
Durham, NC

Nahush A. Mokadam, MD
Columbus, OH

Sigrid Sandner, MD
Vienna, Austria

Vinod Thourani, MD
Atlanta, GA

Congenital Heart
Yves d’Udekem, MD
Washington, DC

Danielle Gottlieb-Sen, MD
Baltimore, MD

Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD
Gainesville, FL

David M. Overman, MD
Minneapolis, MN

Jennifer C. Romano, MD
Ann Arbor, MI

General Thoracic
Elizabeth A. David, MD, MAS
Aurora, CO

Farhood Farjah, MD
Seattle, WA

Benjamin D. Kozower, MD
St. Louis, MO

Brian Mitzman, MD
Salt Lake City, UT

Erino A. Rendina, MD
Rome, Italy

Valerie W. Rusch, MD
New York, NY

Biostatistics
Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD
New York, NY

CME
Colleen G. Koch, MD, MS
Gainesville, FL

Digital Media and Digital Scholarship
Thomas K. Varghese, Jr., MD, MS
Salt Lake City, UT

Education
Mara B. Antonoff, MD
Houston, TX

Perioperative
Daniel Engelman, MD
Springfield, MA

Public Policy
Keith A. Horvath, MD
Washington, DC

Quality
Michael E. Bowdish, MD
Los Angeles, CA

Science 
Elaine Tseng, MD
San Francisco, CA

Adult Cardiac
Vincent Chan, MD, MPH
Ottawa, Canada

Amy G. Fiedler, MD
San Francisco, CA

Isaac George, MD
New York, NY

Shawn S. Groth, MD
Houston, TX

John Ikonomidis, MD
Chapel Hill, NC

Marjan Jahangiri, MD
London, United Kingdom

Ourania Preventza, MD
Houston, TX

Scott C. Silvestry, MD
Orlando, FL

Bobby Yanagawa, MD, PhD
Toronto, Canada

Congenital Heart
Damien J. LaPar, MD, MSc
Houston, TX

Meena Nathan, MD, MPH
Boston, MA

General Thoracic
Kathryn E. Engelhardt, MD, MS
Charleston, SC

Virginia R. Litle, MD
Murray, UT

Global Health
Jacques Kpodonu, MD
Boston, MA

Biostatistics 
Natalia N. Egorova, PhD
New York, NY

Stephen Fremes, MD
Toronto, Canada

Andrew B. Goldstone, MD, PhD
New York, NY

Gary Grunkemeier, PhD
Portland, OR

Alexander Iribarne, MD
Lebanon, NH

Paul Kurlansky, MD
New York, NY

Esther Lu, MS, PhD
St. Louis, MO

Asishana A. Osho, MD
Boston, MA

David Ouyang, MD
Los Angeles, CA

Fei Wan, MS, PhD
St. Louis, MO

CME
Jessica S. Donington, MD
Chicago, IL

Stephanie M. Fuller, MD
Philadelphia, PA

Nadia Hensley, MD
Baltimore, MD

Gabriel Loor, MD
Houston, TX

Digital Media and Digital Scholarship 
Alexander A. Brescia, MD, MSc
Ann Arbor, MI

Aleksander Dokollari, MD
Toronto, Canada

Joshua C. Grimm, MD
Philadelphia, PA

Jessica G.Y. Luc, MD
Vancouver, Canada

Amy N. Roach, MD
Los Angeles, CA

Dominique Vervoort, MD, MPH
Toronto, Canada

Moritz Wyler von Ballmoos, MD
Houston, TX

M. Mujeeb Zubair, MD 
Los Angeles, CA

Ethics
Robert M. Sade, MD
Charleston, SC

Illustrator
Sarah A. Chen, MD, CMI
Davis, CA

Surgical Heritage
Douglas J. Mathisen, MD
Boston, MA

Jake H. Abernathy III, MD, MPH
Baltimore, MD

Niv Ad, MD
Silver Spring, MD

Enoch Akowuah, MD
Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Bahaaldin Alsoufi, MD
Louisville, KY

Jehangir J. Appoo, MDCM
Calgary, Canada

Arman Arghami, MD
Rochester, MN

Vinay Badhwar, MD
Morgantown, WV

Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD
Cleveland, OH

Yaron D. Barac, MD, PhD
Petah Tikva, Israel

Alejandro Bribriesco, MD
Cleveland, OH

Lisa M. Brown, MD, MAS
Sacramento, CA

Paulo F. Cardoso, MD, PhD
São Paulo, Brazil

Ke-Neng Chen, MD, PhD
Beijing, China

Danny Chu, MD
Pittsburgh, PA

Michael Chu, MD, FRCSC
Ontario, Canada

Traves D. Crabtree, MD
Springfield, IL

Todd Crawford, MD
Philadelphia, PA

Marcelo Cypel, MD
Toronto, CA

Chadrick E. Denlinger, MD
Indianapolis, IN

J. Michael DiMaio, MD
Plano, TX

Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD
St. Louis, MO

Dominic Emerson, MD, FACS
Los Angeles, CA

Anthony L. Estrera, MD
Houston, TX

Felix G. Fernandez, MD
Atlanta, GA

Victor A. Ferraris, MD
Lexington, KY

Kirsten Finucane, MD
Auckland, New Zealand

James S. Gammie, MD
Baltimore, MD

Arnar Geirsson, MD
New Haven, CT

Tracy R. Geoffrion, MD, MPH
Milwaukee, WI

A. Marc Gillinov, MD
Cleveland, OH

Kendra J. Grubb, MD, MHA
Atlanta, GA

Kristine J. Guleserian, MD
Dallas, TX

T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA
New York, NY

Matthew G. Hartwig, MD
Durham, NC

Makoto Hibino, MD
Cleveland, OH

Tain-Yen Hsia, MD
Orlando, FL

Dawn S. Hui, MD
San Antonio, TX

S. Adil Husain, MD
Salt Lake City, UT

Syed T. Hussain, MD
New York, NY

Tara Karamlou, MD
Cleveland, OH

Masashi Kawabori, MD
Boston, MA

Arman Kilic, MD
Charleston, SC

Anthony W. Kim, MD, FACS
Los Angeles, CA

Peter Kneuertz, MD
Columbus, OH

Michael Lanuti, MD
Boston, MA

Eric J. Lehr, MD, PhD
Seattle, WA

Scott A. LeMaire, MD
Houston, TX

Peter B. Licht, MD, PhD
Odense, Denmark

Lunxu Liu, MD
Chengdu, China

Thomas E. MacGillivray, MD
Washington, DC

Nader Moazami, MD
New York, NY

Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD
Columbus, OH

David L.S. Morales, MD
Cincinnati, OH

Jun Nakajima, MD, PhD
Tokyo, Japan

Katie S. Nason, MD, MPH
Springfield, MA

Olugbenga T. Okusanya, MD
Philadelphia, PA

Kalpaj R. Parekh, MD
Iowa City, IA

Puja Parikh, MD
Stony Brook, NY

Sara K. Pasquali, MD, MHS
Ann Arbor, MI

Gregory Pattakos, MD, MS
Athens, Greece

Keshava Rajagopal, MD
Houston, TX

T. Brett Reece, MD
Aurora, CO

Mark D. Rodefeld, MD
Indianapolis, IN

Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Nashville, TN

Aya Saito, MD
Chiba, Japan

Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz, MD
Zurich, Switzerland

Andrew J. Seely, MD, PhD
Ottawa, Canada

Ashish S. Shah, MD
Nashville, TN

Fawwaz R. Shaw, MD
Atlanta, GA

Christian Shults, MD
Alexandria, VA

Nicholas G. Smedira, MD
Cleveland, OH

Ibrahim Sultan, MD, FACS
Pittsburgh, PA

Li-Zhong Sun, MD
Beijing, China

Hiroo Takayama, MD
New York, NY

Joanna J.M. Takkenberg, MD, PhD
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS
Durham, NC

Giulia Veronesi, MD
Milan, Italy

Kerem M. Vural, MD
Ankara, Turkey

Aaron J. Weiss, MD
Cleveland, OH

Benny Weksler, MD
Pittsburgh, PA

Daniel Wendt, MD, PhD
Essen, Germany

Sai S. Yendamuri, MD
Buffalo, NY

Editorial Staff, Chicago, IL

Managing Editor
John C. Kerpan, MA

Editorial Manager
Andrea L. Musolf, MBA, MSMOB

Production Manager
Mary K. Jedlicka

Editorial Assistant
Valerie Kunkel

Publisher Staff, New York, NY

Senior Issue Manager
Nicole Scott